An Investigation of Dynamical Processes Influencing Sediment Transport and Morphological Change in Skagit Bay using an Unstructured Grid Coastal Ocean Model

Abstract

A high resoluton ocena model is configured to resolve the hydrodynamic processes in Skagit Bay, Washington. Model skill is evaluated by comparison with tidal harmonics. A sequence of meshes is employed to establish grid independence of the resulting solution. Resolution of the flooding/drying process is evaluated by comparison with a wet/dry front resolving scheme.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 02, 2011
Accession Number
ADA550015

Entities

People

  • Geoffrey W. Cowles

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Floods
  • Harmonics
  • Mathematics
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Sequences
  • Transport Ships

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)